The first thing you need to understand about A Good Day to Die Hard is that it isn’t really a Die Hard movie. In the same way that instant coffee…
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Kiwi crowd-pleasers don’t come much more crowd-pleasing than Tearepa Kahi’s Mt. Zion, featuring TV talent quester Stan Walker in a star-making performance as a working class kid with a dream.…
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Local audiences can pretend they are Academy voters for the next few weeks because almost all the big nominees are being released at the same time. It’s the NZ way…
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Between its heralded US release in September last year and its arrival in a (very) limited number of New Zealand cinemas this weekend, Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master seems to…
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As I sit here typing, I can hear the sounds of a Wellington summer all around me - the rain pouring on to the deck outside and the wind howling…
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It may be playing in cinemas but I’m not entirely convinced that The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - and, by extension, the forthcoming Desolation of Smaug and There and Back…
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